Charles Baudelaire Quotes

1821 - 1867

French Symbolist poet and critic.
He is best known for his collection Les Fleurs du mal
(1857), for which author, printer and publisher were prosecuted
for impropriety, but was praised by critics and has exerted an
influence far into the 20c.

Charles Baudelaire Delacroix was passionately in love with passion, and coldly determined to seek the means of expressing passion in the most visible manner. In this dual character, be it said in passing, we find the two distinguishing marks of the most substantial geniuses, extreme geniuses.L’œuvre et la vie d’Eugène Delacroix [The Life and Work of Eugène Delacroix] (1863), published in Curiosités esthétiques (1868)

Charles Baudelaire The Poet is a kinsman in the cloudsWho scoffs at archers, loves a stormy day;But on the ground, among the hooting crowds,He cannot walk, his wings are in the way."L’Albatros" [The Albatross] (translated by James McGowan, Oxford University Press, 1993) [7]

Charles Baudelaire God would be unjust if we were not guilty.Blaise Pascal, Pensées: It is necessary that we were born guilty, or God would be unjust [Il faut que nous naissions coupables, ou Dieu serait injuste]. This is Pensée 431 in the Édition Gallimard, 1962. It is found in the section entitled "The Signs of True Religion" [Les Marques de la Vraie Religion]English text, #489; French text, #205